Received INETA Community Champion Award
This was an exciting week for me in more ways than one. I returned home from a great July 4th getaway with my wife and daughters to an email from Shawn Weisfeld of INETA informing me that I had been chosen as a Community Champion for the 2nd Quarter of 2010. I was both honored and humbled to learn of the news. INETA asks user group leaders and developer evangelists to log their activities for them on a quarterly basis -- which I do. This quarter they saw fit to add my name to the list of nine other deserving INETA Community Champions.
I come from an open source background where I was very active in the developer community -- a community that for reasons beyond me was not so friendly to Microsoft and other software providers. Since changing my focus to the Microsoft platform less than a decade ago, I have been blown away by the community involvement that Microsoft and its partners display. It is an honor to be a part of such a community and to be recognized for contributing to it. Thanks INETA for all that you do for our user groups. I want to thank the enthusiasts that come to all of our local meetings and contribute to our local community each month -- and the regional groups that extended invitations for me to come and share. I also want to thank my co-workers in the Microsoft technologies practice at Keller Schroeder who continually contribute to the local developer community and are just as worthy of this award as I am. Here's to a great team!
